The U.S. president seems more concerned with North Korea and Charlottesville than Syria, which worries Jerusalem. If the trend continues, Iran will have a real military presence on Israel’s two northern borders

‘You’re suspected of stealing a motorcycle,’ one of the cops said as he beat me. I told him I owned the bike and I was the one who’d called the police, but he kept calling me ‘Mohammed” and two other cops started kicking me.

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